UCB and UCLA: Can you get in both?

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Haha, I love sakky posts. </p>

<p>Mr. X: I dunno, I think that the new burger at McD's isn't good.
sakky: Actually.........</p>

<p>[Three pages later, with exhaustive evidence and argumentation....]</p>

<p>...so that's why I think that the burger is decent

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<p>Hey, it's always better to be too thorough than to be too glib.</p>

<p>Traditionally, it has turned out that a considerable portion of applicants got into one but rejected from the other.. (this is excluding all the 4.25 2400's, 800 on 4 SAT2's, recruit for football, 1000+ community hours, cured cancer, etc.)</p>

<p>I will not say that getting into both is impossible, but I do think it is significantly harder to get into both than into one. </p>

<p>The reason for this is simple, UCLA and UCB aren't just "great schools" whose criteria for admission are one in the same; after decades of both being top schools, each looks for different things among different applicants.</p>

<p>yeap, i got into both too</p>

<p>just got into both this year too.</p>

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The reason for this is simple, UCLA and UCB aren't just "great schools" whose criteria for admission are one in the same; after decades of both being top schools, each looks for different things among different applicants.

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<p>I don't know how accurate a telling of history that is, but whatevs.</p>

<p>It has seemed to me that UCLA and UCB is just a numbers game which can help certain applicants and hurt others. Out of State applicants also have a tougher admissions standard in general; at my school it seemed the work that would get you into just outside the top 5-6 colleges is necessary to get into Berkeley. Not sure about UCLA.</p>

<p>My GPA and Essays are excellent. My SAT is good but not all that stellar (I'm not a good big test taker - I failed my driving test numerous times). But I'm very passionate about what I want to the point of taking many college courses on it, studying topics myself, getting an internship, etc (I obviously conveyed this in my essays). I was accepted in ULCA. What do you think of my chances at Cal?</p>

<p>Yeah, I got into both. It really has no relationship.</p>

<p>Roy...what about your extracurriculars?</p>

<p>Err.. not much to talk about. A usual list but two that I actually did something in was: Speech and Debate (one year only though - 9th) and peer tutoring in Comp Sci (my major).</p>

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Hey, it's always better to be too thorough than to be too glib.

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<p>But it's even better to be concise and meaningful. ;)</p>

<p>I'm just giving you a hard time.</p>

<p>roy.. u're freakin just like me!!</p>

<p>1) not that great a test taker I guess, SATs aren't stellar at 2000 (although i did '800' the Math 2 and get a 750 on physics in the SAT 2's)</p>

<p>AND I failed my driving test like 3 times.. ughh</p>

<p>2) GPA and essays were pretty good I believe, especially for my major.. which brings me to number 3</p>

<p>3) I'm a Comp sci major!</p>

<p>did u get into UCLA?</p>

<p>1) SAT I: 640 W 680 M 740 R (One month before it was 630 W 700 M 680 R)
2) I failed my DT thrice and retook the written test. I'm going in to take it for the fourth time some time soon. I'm so stupid. I make the silliest of mistakes...
3) GPA UW: 3.95 GPA W (UC Capped): 4.303. Essays were good.
4) Me too! I actually want to enter the gaming industry (video games not poker). It's not some silly kiddie desicions. I wanted to intern at many developer studios but I wasn't 18 yet. I am developing a game of my own. I self taught a lot of game development things. I wrote about it on the essays of course :D
5) Yep! You?</p>

<p>Are you Asian too? :p I'm Indian.</p>

<p>Please...vagrant and roy...consider learning the bus schedule. It will save the lives of possibly two, maybe even three people in the long run. :p</p>

<p>haha no not Asian.. just caucasian.. (half-French also, I grew up there so I'm bilingual) </p>

<p>yea the gaming industry's pretty narly.. I remember I started out programming VERY basic stuff on my calc.. and then one day I made pong.. and then minesweeper.. and now I'm working on Tetris..</p>

<p>I'm the ONLY one at my school who's even thinking of anything to do with programming; last year I got a 5 on the Computer Science test and not only was I the first to ever get a 5 from my school, I was the only person who even passed it last year lol. Anyways yea.. let me kno where u end u goin man..</p>

<p>Ha ha. I know how to drive, I swear. The people giving me the tests were prejudiced! (it was silly mistakes, I swear! And once the turn signals died on me and they told me to just pull back into the DMV and end it. :p)</p>

<p>I started programming on Win 95 :p. I first saw/used computers when I was 10 so I really didn't have much of a chance. I never made minesweeper as I'm in the .00000001% that hates it. I made pong, tetris, and a generic tank game of my own. I'm currently making the sequel (that will sell approx. 1 copy - to me), which will include FPS versions.</p>

<p>I aced AP Comp Sci class and test with relative ease too. I even tutored others in the class, while I was taking the class! I also had the highest grade in all (save one) the prog. classes I took at a CC and I was the youngest. So yes, you see how it goes.</p>

<p>Je parle francais aussi, mais pas tres bon! Je suis en Francais 4 dans ma </p>